Chretien de Troyes created in Perceval a mythic type used for centuries in literature. Joseph Conrad's Charlie Marlow is a modern re-creation of the Perceval-type. Marlow has been the subject of scholarly study as vehicle for Conrad's other characters and, in recent work, as a significant character in his own right, but the construction of his character has not previously been approached as a rewriting of the Perceval-type, structured across the four works where Marlow appears. Bringing forward Campbell's and Frye's theories of myth, Bakhtin's theories of time and intertextuality, theories of narratology, and the bildungsroman, I examine how Conrad's work reconstructs our understanding of the mythic type. I argue that Marlow is a self-narrated reconstruction of the Perceval-type and, as such, serves as a bridge between Chretien's Perceval and the modern antihero. This connection informs the understanding of the importance of the continued use of mythic types in literary culture, opens up a new aspect of Conrad studies, and challenges traditional critical reading assumptions.
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机译:克雷蒂安·德·特鲁瓦(Chretien de Troyes)在佩尔西瓦尔(Perceval)创造了一种神话形式,用于数个世纪的文学创作。约瑟夫·康拉德(Joseph Conrad)的查理·马洛(Charlie Marlow)是Perceval型的现代再造。马洛一直是学术研究的主题,是康拉德其他角色的载体,并且在最近的作品中,马洛是他本人的重要角色,但他的角色构造以前并未被当作对珀西瓦尔式结构化的重写在马洛出现的四幅作品中提出坎贝尔和弗莱的神话理论,巴赫金的时间和互文性理论,叙事学理论以及《胆小鬼》,我考察了康拉德的作品如何重构了我们对神话类型的理解。我认为马洛(Marlow)是Perceval类型的自我叙述的重建,因此,是Chretien的Perceval与现代反英雄之间的桥梁。这种联系使人们了解了在文化中继续使用神话类型的重要性,打开了康拉德研究的新领域,并挑战了传统的批判性阅读假设。
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